How come commecial carrots never get carrot fly and gardeners carrots do?? One more case of 'One law for them, another for us.' If farmers are using products that are safe to use, why are they not available to us amateures? This isn't double standards, this is Big Brother at work!
Valid points all I'm sure and now for my tuppence worth.
Perhaps it's a matter of accountability.
Registered substances are closely monitored and in larger corporations they would be checked numerous times every time they "change hands". eg ammonium nitrate, absolute alcohol etc.
Maybe it was considered irresponsible to hand a pound of it over to some old duffer in a shed to pass around his mates in lemonade bottles.
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If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
How come commecial carrots never get carrot fly and gardeners carrots do?? One more case of 'One law for them, another for us.' If farmers are using products that are safe to use, why are they not available to us amateures? This isn't double standards, this is Big Brother at work!
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
Valid points all I'm sure and now for my tuppence worth.
Perhaps it's a matter of accountability.
Registered substances are closely monitored and in larger corporations they would be checked numerous times every time they "change hands". eg ammonium nitrate, absolute alcohol etc.
Maybe it was considered irresponsible to hand a pound of it over to some old duffer in a shed to pass around his mates in lemonade bottles.
.....and discuss!
Would that be the same close monitoring that turned eveyone's hair green in Camelford?
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
Seldom drink!!
I concur re big companies and the little guy.
I believe there's now nothing on the market for domestic gardeners which controls botrytis in strawberries.